Book-binding



(No Model.)

H. G. RAZALL. BOOK BINDING.

No. 443,332. Patented Dec. 23,. 1890.

WMQ w n I W I I 16 M y W U ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY G. RAZALL, OF MILVAUKEE, \VISOONSIN.

BOOK-BINDING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 443,332, dated December 23, 1890.

Application filed January 27, 1890. Serial No. 338,201. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY G. RAZALL, of

Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee, and

in the State of \Visconsimhave invented certain new and useful Improvements in Book- Binding; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to book-binding; and it consists in certain peculiarities of construction and combination of parts, to be hereinafter described with reference to the accompanying drawings, and subsequently claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a book embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a detail end view of a sewing band, a three-creased flexible stub attached thereto, and book-leaves connected to the stub; and Fig. 3,a plan view of asewing-band and the three-creased flexible stub.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A represents the cover, and B the sewing-bands, of a book. Stitched or otherwise secured to the sewing-bands are the middle creases of a series of three-folded flexible stubs G, and likewise connected to the remaining creases of said stubs are the leaves D of the book.

In order to stiffen the stubs O, I prefer to provide the same with re-enforces E, of any suitable material these re-enforces being shown in Fig. 2.

By the construction above described it will be seen that each section of the book is composed of a three-creased flexible stub having two clusters of folded leaves connected thereto, and each of these clusters is independent of all the other clusters in said book, and

when the latter is opened said leaves will lie flat, this being the object of my invention.

I am aware of a book wherein each cluster of leaves is secured to a projecting flexible strip and the outer edges of the several strips united by suitable means.

I am also aware of asewing-band forbooks having strips secured thereto at suitable intervals forming folding spaces.

1 am further aware of a scrap-album havin g a solid back built with fourfold guards, to which the leaves are connected without sew ing in such a manner as to have a solid guard in alternate openings, said guards being thickened, if desired, by means of splints placed between the inner folds; but such I do not claim, my invention being limited to the three creased stubs above described.

I am aware of an album wherein a flexible strip or sewing-band is indefinitely creased and the leaves connected to alternate creases.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a book, the combination, with the cover and sewing-bands, of a series of booksections, each comprising a stub having three creases, the middle one of which is stitched to said sewing-bands, and clusters of leaves stitched to the remaining creases of the stub, substantially as set forth.

2. In a book, the combination, with the cover and sewing-bands, of a series of booksections, each comprising a stub provided with a re-enforce and having three creases, the middle one of which is stitched to the sewing-bands, and clusters of leaves stitched to the remaining creases of the stub, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of VVis cousin, in the presence of two witnesses.

HENRY G. RAZALL.

Witnesses:

N. E. OLIPI-IANT, WM. KLUG. 

